“If we’re grateful, we’re not fearful, and if we’re not fearful, we’re not violent. Then, we act out of a sense of enough instead of scarcity, and we start to share.”-Brother David Steindl-Rast, quoted by Nipun Mehta
Nipun Mehta describes the richness of Br. David’s “extreme ordinariness”in a recent blog.
“I had read M.C.Richards’s Centering years before. It was a book about clay and art and life. In it, Richards described Jean Genet, the French playwright, who said he wanted to roam the countryside like a monk, holding a begging bowl, having filled it with what he needed for the nourishment in his life.
… each day a monk goes out with his empty bowl in his hands. Whatever is placed in the bowl will be his nourishment for the day.”
quoted from: Everyday Sacred, A Woman’s Journey Home by Sue Bender
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